BlueScapegoat
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Sold my 87 to make room for a Gladiator. Cool truck. Friend bought it, so it's still around.
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I want to politely call bs on that one. Maybe you hit a bedside on something and tweaked it that way, but the rear of the Comanche sat on it's own frame section and it's damn sturdy. I've done some heavy wheeling with some friends and their MJs and I've never seen anything like what you're describing. Even when half the truck has turned to dust lol. Something else was going on there.Got it stuck first week I owned it, front end dropped into some sticky mud. When I got out of the truck I noticed the middle bed side near the top had a new crease in it (unibody trucks are bad).
The Comanche had an impressive payload for a truck smaller than a modern midsize. There was a metric tonne package with a 2,205 lb payload rating. It had an extra leaf and a D44. Frame was unaltered.I do note the Comanche suspension is kind of stiff compared to a Cherokee.
I assume its for payload capacity but its is not great for articulation.
Well that is interesting, I assumed it was unibody all the way back (and flexy like the XJ). Regarding the “crease”, there was no impact mark that I remember, the paint was pristine (loved it at the time).I want to politely call bs on that one. Maybe you hit a bedside on something and tweaked it that way, but the rear of the Comanche sat on it's own frame section and it's damn sturdy. I've done some heavy wheeling with some friends and their MJs and I've never seen anything like what you're describing. Even when half the truck has turned to dust lol. Something else was going on there.
I bought a beater one to chop off bed to make a trailer out of. I cut off the frame it was such a mess of sheet metal folded and cross braced, I just bought square tubing and some channel to build a frame for the bed. The "weak" link would have been the bed floor not the formed frame. The "weak" link on my MJ is the floor and rust, the formed frame is solid still just Flintstone floor. The evil S### used on roads in winter here and Europe is nasty. Full undercoating, no bare metal washed regularly still eat though paint and metal.Well that is interesting, I assumed it was unibody all the way back (and flexy like the XJ). Regarding the “crease”, there was no impact mark that I remember, the paint was pristine (loved it at the time).
We’re talking almost 30 years ago so who knows. I was surprised by the payload ratings you posted though, impressive!
Not to be pedantic, but also not quite right. Frame in the rear, unibody in front. If you ever rip the carpet out of an XJ and MJ side by side you'll see a flat floor in the XJ and you'll see additional box section spot welded to the floor in the MJ, sandwiching the floor into the unibody and tapering off at the front.Definitely not unibody, it was a full framed Truck, had an 89. It was tough as nails.